I think Meghan mentioned Lebron tweeting the police officer’s name (picture?) and said he could be endangering the officer’s life by doing so, so Whoopi may not have been confusing names (in this case, at least!).
“The man I'm about to marry, former Florida Republican Party Chairman Al Cardenas....”
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/11/02/opinions/why-im-voting-for-andrew-gillum-navarro/index.html
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Cardenas